Windows Event Log (winevtlog)
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The winevtlog input plugin allows you to read Windows Event Log with new API from winevt.h
.
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
Key | Description | Default |
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Note that if you do not set db, the plugin will tail channels on each startup.
Here is a minimum configuration example.
Note that some Windows Event Log channels (like Security
) requires an admin privilege for reading. In this case, you need to run fluent-bit as an administrator.
The Event_Query
parameter can be used to specify the XML query for filtering Windows EventLog during collection. The supported query types are XPath and XML Query. For further details, please refer to the MSDN doc.
If you want to do a quick test, you can run this plugin from the command line.
Note that winevtlog
plugin will tail channels on each startup. If you want to confirm whether this plugin is working or not, you should specify -p 'Read_Existing_Events=true'
parameter.
Channels
A comma-separated list of channels to read from.
Interval_Sec
Set the polling interval for each channel. (optional)
1
Interval_NSec
Set the polling interval for each channel (sub seconds. (optional)
0
Read_Existing_Events
Whether to read existing events from head or tailing events at last on subscribing. (optional)
False
DB
Set the path to save the read offsets. (optional)
String_Inserts
Whether to include StringInserts in output records. (optional)
True
Render_Event_As_XML
Whether to render system part of event as XML string or not. (optional)
False
Use_ANSI
Use ANSI encoding on eventlog messages. If you have issues receiving blank strings with old Windows versions (Server 2012 R2), setting this to True may solve the problem. (optional)
False
Event_Query
Specify XML query for filtering events.
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